INDIA COLLABORATION
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INDIA COLLABORATION
Jobs with Justice and the New Trade Union Initiative (NTUI) in India have been building an international collaboration for more than a year. The partnership was kicked off by an International Workers Rights Tour in the US in December 2004 featuring Ashim Roy and V. Chandra. This was the first time that Indian trade union leaders visited the US to interact closely with workers and their communities across the country. It was a time when "outsourcing" became the battle cry in the US. By the end of the tour, the Communication Workers of America (CWA), NTUI and JwJ agreed to do call center research together based on the understanding that the root of the problem is "Outsourcing, not Offshoring", a political formulation that cuts the oxygen off for xenophobic outcries against Indian workers.
NTUI, a trade union federation that strategically includes non-union "associate" members to form what it calls a "social alliance" and Jobs with Justice, a hybrid union and non-union coalitional labor-community organization, share similar values, some of which could be captured by the term: "social movement unionism." The two organizations have been engaged in a collaboration that must be understood in the broader realm of international labor movement and social movement unionism.
Read more about our work and collaborations in India:
- Asia Floor Wage Campaign
- First Tier Garment Exporters in Delhi: Industry and Company Perspectives. A Collaborative Report of United Students Against Sweatshops, Jobs with Justice, and the Society for Labour and Development
- Bi-National Perspective on Offshore Outsourcing: A Collaboration Between Indian & U.S. Labour
- JwJ members attend NTUI Founding Convention in India (April 2006)
- Update from India (February 2006)
